Galactic War Help

"MasterSeedy;c-2143687" wrote:
@CrownedPrince is correct about one thing:

This is wrong. GBA unlocks at 4 stars (80 shards), not 50. He's also a 16 energy cantina farm. This is a brutal farm, even with refreshes. It will take a month+ to unlock it.

I did misremember the number of stars GBA requires for unlock. Other than that, though, it's not a brutal farm. Cantina farms are never brutal farms, not even at 16 energy.

Cost analysis:

Spoiler

Even with no refreshes, you get 10 attempts / day (165 cantina energy per day @ 16 energy). That's 2x what you get from hard nodes with no refreshes. Buying more energy is 100 instead of 50, but not only do you not need to pay the node refresh cost, but the node refresh cost increases dramatically. That first refresh on a hard node might cost 43-crystals worth of extra energy and only 25 for the node refresh (68 total) which is a savings, but it also only gets you 5 more attempts.

The 100 energy refresh for GBA gives you 7.5 more attempts instead of 5. If you notice, that's 1/2 again what you get from hard nodes. And look! 68 + 1/2 of 68 = 102. So the price for that first refresh is right on target.

The price for the 2nd refresh though means a cost of 93 for the hard node's 5 more attempts, while the Cantina node gives you 7.5 more for 100.

If you're following along at home, that means 50% more attempts for 7.5% more crystals.

Cantina farms are ALWAYS easier.

Also, it won't take more than a month to unlock. The drop rates have never been confirmed by CG, but they're obviously around 3/10 or 1/3 (30% to 33.33%). At the low end of that range (3/10) and knowing that 165 free energy per day gets you 10 attempts per day, it's easy to see that you should expect to average 3 shards/day (or a tiny bit more if the drop rate is really 1/3) over the long term.

3 per day means 27 days to unlock. That's less than a month even during February. Your first 100 crystals/ day mean an extra 2.5 shards per day.

5.5 shards per day = 15 days to unlock. That's far from brutal.

Don't be afraid. Get yourself some Brood Alpha.